Smashing the shop (Part 2)

After Zhan Zhengzhen and Cai Wenle made their moves, they immediately drove their swords to the door of Xu Ya's shop.

Xu Ya was also hugging Ah Xi inside the shop, the two of them squatting on the ground holding each other's heads.

Although Xu Ya felt that her pricing was fair, she couldn't care less if others thought it was overpriced. Faced with dissatisfied cultivators, Xu Ya was helpless and could only resign herself to waiting for death.

Xu Ya and A Xi huddled together, shivering, hesitant to open their eyes.

"Junior Sister, don't be afraid! I'll handle this villain!"

The familiar voice made Xu Ya open her frightened eyes abruptly, her eyes already brimming with tears. Although Xu Ya, who had regained her memories, might not be so timid, she still couldn't help but shed tears when her life was in danger.

Xu Ya stood up in surprise, took a few steps to the door, still hiding behind the counter, and called out, "It's you! Senior Brother Zhan, Senior Brother Cai!"

The monk who had been thrown off the ground scrambled to his feet and coughed violently, suddenly snapping out of his rage.

He had to be clear-headed; the two people in front of him were high-level sword cultivators.

In Zene, everyone could walk all over him.

He clutched his aching chest and was preparing to leave quietly.

The next second, Cai Wenle suddenly appeared in front of him, grabbed him by the collar, and forcefully dragged him to the front of the store.

"What exactly do you want?" Cai Wenle asked in an unfriendly tone. "Why are you trying to smash up the shop using a mid-level destruction technique?"

"This..." The low-level cultivator wished he could disappear into the ground, but Cai Wenle's hand was tightly gripping the hem of his clothes, and he was unable to break free.

"Senior brother..." The low-level cultivator craned his neck, growing more and more indignant as he tried to elicit a consensus, "This, is Xu Ya's fried chicken really worth 3 mid-level spirit stones?!"

"Is smashing up a store just because you think the goods aren't worth the money?" Zhan Zhengzhen laughed in anger upon hearing this.

Zhan Zhengzhen said, "Even if a deal falls through, goodwill should remain. You can think it's not worth it, then don't buy it. But if you think it's not worth it and want to destroy it, which sect do you follow? I'd like to ask your master if this is the principle!"

Upon hearing this, the low-level cultivator's face contorted with fear, trembling like a leaf. He immediately hunched over like a wilted eggplant, humbly apologizing to the two: "Ahhh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I was confused, I was confused!"

“You don’t need to apologize to us,” Cai Wenle said with immense strength, lifting the low-level cultivator into the air and dragging him to Xu Ya’s shop. “You should apologize to your innocent junior sister whom you bullied!”

"Ahhhh, junior sister, I'm so sorry, I was wrong, I was out of my mind, please forgive me!!!"

Xu Ya watched the battle from behind the counter. She saw the cultivator who had tried to destroy the shop being held like a chick by Cai Wenle, while the once arrogant cultivator was now nodding vigorously, his hands rubbing together like flies, apologizing to her repeatedly.

She felt a strange sense of relief.

However, the rule in Xianze is that if a cultivator of a higher level apologizes to you, you must accept it no matter what happened. It is because of this that Xu Ya despises Xianze. Under this environment, countless bullying incidents have been bred.

Xu Ya, who harbored eternal hatred, did not want to forgive this reckless monk, but she still reluctantly agreed.

Upon hearing this, Cai Wenle abruptly released his grip, and the low-level cultivator angrily slammed to the ground. Judging from the noise, it was clear that several of his bones were likely dislocated and he would need to recuperate.

Xu Ya cheered herself up and sincerely thanked Zhan Zhengzhen and Cai Wenle.

"Yes, Junior Sister, you don't need to be so polite." Zhan Zhengzhen said with a smile, taking out a money pouch from his sleeve: "One deep-fried whole chicken, three mid-grade spirit stones, here, give me two servings."

"Oh, no, no, no, let me treat you to this," Xu Ya said, feeling embarrassed to accept their money. She immediately prepared two large fried chickens and presented them to them.

Zhan Zhengzhen magically slipped the fried chicken into his sleeve, then placed ten mid-grade spirit stones in Xu Ya's palm. He laughed and said, "How can that be? I heard that Junior Sister has a weak constitution and needs spirit stones to buy pills to nourish her body. Your Senior Brother Cai and I also think Master Xu's idea is excellent. Besides, that day... if it weren't for you..."

Xu Ya stopped refusing and put the ten spirit stones into her sleeve.

The low-level cultivators had somehow managed to scramble into a corner and flee in disarray. The street vendors, seeing that the fighting had subsided, watched for a moment before hurriedly pushing their carts back to their original spots and starting to hawk their wares without stopping.

With the monks who vandalized the shop gone, Xu Ya's business gradually got back on track. Many familiar monks came down the mountain specifically to try Xu Ya's fried chicken and see if it was as amazing as the rumors suggested.

There were also those like the low-level cultivator who felt that Xu Ya's pricing was very unreasonable. Most of them were low-level cultivators, but Zhan Zhengzhen and Cai Wenle, two high-level cultivators, were standing in front of the shop for no reason. Even if they were dissatisfied, they could not openly start another conflict.

Xu Ya never expected that business would be better than she imagined; all ten or so portions of fried chicken she had prepared had already been sold.

Before closing time, Xu Ya had already run out of fried chicken to sell.

Fortunately, Xu Ya had the foresight to keep the male lead's fried chicken in her treasure bag.

Seeing that Senior Brother Zhan and Senior Brother Cai hadn't left yet, Xu Ya timidly asked, "Um... Senior Brothers, I have a favor to ask, but I don't know..."

"Junior sister, please speak freely."

“This fried chicken is specially prepared for Senior Brother Shi,” Xu Ya said, taking out the fried chicken food box. “Could you please take it to Senior Brother Shi?”

She really didn't want to make another trip. Xu Ya waited hopefully for her senior brothers' response.

Xu Ya blinked her big eyes, the twilight reflected in them, and somehow it was hard to refuse.

Zhan Zhengzhen and Cai Wenle exchanged a glance for no apparent reason: The problem is, they weren't familiar with Senior Brother Shi either...

When they came to their senses, Zhan Zhengzhen and Cai Wenle had already taken to the air on their swords, carrying their junior sister's food box, and were flying towards Shi Yuzhen's residence.

Xu Ya believed in her two senior brothers' abilities, and finally felt relieved.

She closed the shop and took out a pen and paper to calculate today's sales figures.

It was only at this point that she truly realized how good this system and this supreme deity were to her.

Although Xu Ya's goal was to go home, she knew that the system's condition was that she could only go home when the male protagonist, Shi Yuzhen, became the number one person in the immortal realm.

Who knows if she, with a constitution even worse than that of an ordinary person, will die of illness or natural causes when the male protagonist advances to that point?

Therefore, her primary goal must be to improve her physical condition, so she needs to accumulate a lot of spirit stones to nourish her body.

Xu Ya had already made up her mind. Health is the foundation of everything. She would first cultivate her physique to the point where she could perform simple cultivation, and then consume the fried chicken she made herself. Wouldn't that allow her to reach the Qi Refining stage very quickly? Immortality would be just around the corner!

Furthermore, since there are ways to earn spirit stones, we should plan our future expenses and strive to make the most of every spirit stone.

Xu Ya spent some time carefully going through the accounts.

Rushing to the market opening, Xu Ya went out to exchange her mid-grade spirit stones for high-grade spirit stones, and then went to Danxiao Mansion to buy medicine to nourish her dantian.

Before going, Xu Ya had already decided what kind of pills she wanted to buy, but when she arrived at the shop, she was inevitably humiliated by the cultivator who was minding the shop.

That's right. Cultivators who spend their days tending the shops naturally wouldn't be the first to know about the latest news from within the Immortal Marsh.

They still regarded Xu Ya as that lowly, worthless nobody and made some sarcastic remarks.

Xu Ya endured the humiliation and couldn't help but tell a little lie to deceive them: "...I was running errands for Senior Brother Zhan."

She really didn't dare to say it was herself anymore; those alchemists were so sharp-tongued that Xu Ya felt like a punching bag.

Back at the shop at night, Xu Ya fried all the fried chicken for the next day and, with A Xi's help, packed it into bags.

After coaxing Ah-Xi to sleep on the inside of the bed, Xu Ya turned on a small lamp.

She rubbed her hands together impatiently and took out a dark-colored pill from the exquisite medicine box.

The pill was surrounded by a golden halo, indicating that it was of very high quality.

This pill almost wiped out today's profits.

By carefully recalling the drug's description, Xu Ya could already imagine what would happen after she took it.

Xu Ya first assumed the posture of a regular cultivator meditating, then used telekinesis to take the elixir out of the box.

As the pill slid down her throat, Xu Ya immediately felt a surge of intense spiritual energy rush into her seven orifices.

Feeling warm all over, she tried her best to control her spiritual energy and explained how to guide it into her dantian.

She could feel the dryness in her dantian slowly filling up in the rising air.

It continuously absorbs the essence of heaven and earth.

It's done?

Xu Ya couldn't contain her excitement.

They focused their energy and concentration even more diligently.

Just as Xu Ya felt her dantian absorbing spiritual energy and expanding continuously, she suddenly experienced a dull pain in her lower abdomen.

She simply assumed it was a necessary route for cultivators, since no one had told Xu Ya that it was abnormal.

She tried to endure the unusual, dull pain, but couldn't stop trembling. The pain intensified, feeling as if someone was stabbing her a thousand times with a knife. Eventually, she could barely sit still while meditating…

Xu Ya's movements woke up Ah Xi, who was a light sleeper.

When Ah-hsi saw her sister groaning in pain, she immediately got out of bed, picked up the nearly burnt-out candle from the table, and used the candlelight to illuminate Xu Ya's pale face.

Ah-Xi didn't know what was wrong with her sister.

He was so anxious he was jumping up and down.

Ah-Xi didn't know what to do. He wanted to lay Xu Ya down and help her recover, but he found that Xu Ya's body was like a raging fire, burning his little hands.

Ah Xi cried. He rushed out the door, but the streets were deserted, even though it was already past midnight. Ah Xi wandered aimlessly through the muddy streets of Xianxiang as he always did, not knowing who to ask for help.

A figure knocked Ah-Xi away, but before he hit the ground, he felt a force catch him, preventing him from falling.

Ah Xi sensed that this was the spiritual energy that the immortal cultivators spoke of. He scrambled to grab the man's clothes, kowtowing with tears and snot streaming down his face. This was a trick he used when he was begging for food. Ah Xi didn't know if it would work, because begging for food was useless.

But he was helpless.

"Please... save my sister!"

The man was about to leave when he saw this, so he stopped.